Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-21
At THE SODA FOUNTAIN.

How "Constitution Bracers," "Phosphae.
ens," etc., Arc Fixed Out.
A sad eyed youth mechanically manipu-
lated the faucets Of soda fountain on
Broadway the other day and fixed out
for a reporter mixed drink POLITICALLY
called phosphate. 1t had mixed taste
and lingering farewell to it, that caused
the scribe to pause and listen to the youth.
EYES," he said, leaning against the
counter and making himself comfortable,
"the business is growing complex. No
mere chucEled headed chump can squirt
soda water now. There are so many
fancy drinks, mixtures, nerve ticklers,'
stomach bracers' and throat coolers,'
you can't expect an inexperienced boy to
come behind the counter and serve GUS
toners without an apprenticeship. He
would be ratified if a customer should
come in hurriedly and ask for 'phos-
plated mixed nerver.' Where would he
be? Then thsre is the plain phosphate
and the deep rock slack all easy drinks
to concoct when you understand the
wrinkle.
''Look at all these faucet valves on the
face of this fountain. They not only let
out all the mineral waters known, but
the various sweet extracts of fruit the
ladies are so fond of. But the fountain is
too small to contain the other ingredients
for fancy and substantial drinks. We
keep q shelf under the counter with bot
ties ready for use and q heater to furnish
warm drinks. Some years ago Vichy,
Kissingen, sarsaparilla and drinks of that
kind were all the 60, but now new tangled
mixtures divide the honors. Men drink
Vichy more than women. The latter do
not care much for the mineral waters and
nerve drinks; they want sweet extracts
and soda Women occasionally try
bouillon-snifter, but they are few and far
between. Some fellow who amt much on
science, think, has started the report
that Vichy is devitaGzing. 1t has had an
effect on its sale.
Men who patronize soda fountains
regularly don't like straight drinks. They
ask for little lime juice, phosphate or
ginger to kind of tone up the taste OF the
liquor. 1t appears to me they look hap
pier when they hear the squirt, squirt,
squirt, from the bottle into their drinks.
So you see no gawky, everyday man can
step in and do what it takes Us years to
learn. am going to try and get my boss
to start fountain higher uptown where
nothing but 'nervers' are sold. What are
'nerversy Why, l mean nerve drinks,
constitution bracers' and 'phosphaters.
Hundreds of men every day say to me
aside: Say, gimme suthing to brace me
up, kinder.' That's the business want
TO do, the brace up business. New
York Mail and Express.
alaskan Indians are perhaps the oldest
race of cremationists on the face of the
earth. AL their dead, except their medi-
cine men, ere burned. The crematory Is
very simple, yet nevertheless, effective.
When q corpse is to be cremated, it is first
removed from the house through the hole
in tho roof, or through an aperture made
in one of the walls by removing log. Ct
is bad luck to carry 1t out through the
door and carried to . funeral pyre Of
wood built in the form Of hollow rect
angle, measuring four feet long, four feet
wide, and from three to six feet in depth.
The corpse is bundled into the pyre, which
is then lighted. Dry cord wood is then
thrown in on top Of the corpse until the
opening is filed The relatives sit around
the burning pile four or five hours until
everything is consumed. The cremation
is always complete. The ashes Of the
dead man, and Of course more or less
wood ashes, are gathered up, placed In q
wooden box and carried to little grave
house, as it is called. Lieut.. II. T.
Monahan in Brooklyn Eagle.